The Public Improvement Commission (PIC) held a hearing on April 9, 2026, chaired by Dick Gove, interim chief of streets. The commission approved eight public hearing items related to street widening, discontinuance, specific repairs, and projection licenses, primarily for the MBTA Ruggles Station project and two private developments. New business items were presented for future consideration at the April 23, 2026 hearing.
Thank you, Todd. Good morning. My name is Dick Gove, interim chief of streets and chair of the public improvement commission. I'll call toward the public improvement commission hearing of April 9th, 2026. Would the representative from the public works department please state their name for the record? Property management department, please do the same. The second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed or abstain. Hearing none so moved. Okay, so on to the public hearing. Public hearing agenda item number one on a joint petition by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Boston Housing Authority for the widening and relocation of the existing right-of-way lines, Ruggles Street, public way in Roxbury, as well as for the acceptance of a highway easement located generally southeast of Albert Street, as shown on a plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division, Widening Relocation Plan, MBTA Ruggle Station, Ruggles Street in Boston, one sheet dated March 2026. We'll hand it over to the proponent. Good morning. I'm Melissa with AECOM, and we were before you two weeks ago, presenting this to you. Michelle will stuck. Yeah, they uh thank you, Michelle. Um this is for the Regul Street project. Um the widening and relocation will set the lines of Reggle Street to incorporate the um new bike path as proposed as part of the project. Um our meeting on two weeks ago, we've incorporated all comments from the PIC. Umless there's any questions. We feel it's ready to go forward. Any questions or comments from Commission members? How about PIC staff and members of the public? I will take this opportunity to remind the public if you wish to ask questions or add testimony to any particular action item. We ask that you use the raised hand function, which can be found at the reactions tab at the bottom of your screen. Um PIC staff is all set on this ruggles widening and relocation, and I do not see any raised hands right now, so I think we are all set on the section. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve a joint petition by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Boston Housing Authority for a widening relocation of Reggie Street is right in the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed or abstain. Hearing none so moved. Okay. Uh public hearing agenda item number two on a petition by the MBTA for the vertical discontinuance of a portion of Ruggle Street Public Way and Roxbury located generally southeast of Albert Street, vertically below the grade of the roadway. As shown on a plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Vertical Vertical Discontinuance Plan, MBTA Ruggle Station, Ruggles Street, Boston One Sheet Deded March 2026. Back to the proponent. Thank you. As we discussed during the new business hearing, this action is to exclude the subsurface areas of Reckle Street where the MBTA has infrastructure from the easement between the City of Boston and MBTA. Since our last meeting, we addressed the city's comments and the PIC's comments. And going forward, we will have my LARS and a legal description meets and bounds delivered to you. I'll send on this. I'll make a motion to approve a petition by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for a vertical discontinuance in Ruggle Street as reading the record by the chair. The second. All in favor? Aye. Aye.